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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Last year there was a poster whose sig had 9 consecutive "had"s. |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:07 pm Post subject: Re: Riddle |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| gang ah jee wrote: |
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Nope. I googled it after my answer to find the correct answer, which is nothing like my answer in structure, nor meaning  |
Oh, no, yours didn't look like googlism. Mine was googled, but I justify that by saying that I came across the sentence in a philosophy of language class, and I changed some of the words in the sentence I posted.
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| OK, I get the first three, and the last three, but explain how the 4th & 5th buffalo make a coherent sentence. |
Yeah, I can only get 'Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo', meaning that Buffalo from Buffalo buffalo other buffalo from Buffalo. |
Buffalo buffalo (buffalo from Buffalo)
(that)
Buffalo buffalo buffalo (i.e. Buffalo buffalo that Buffalo buffalo trick)
buffalo Buffalo buffalo (trick Buffalo buffalo)
Or to use different wording: Small people that small people like, like small people. |
Nice...but seems that it isn't porper without the word "that" between 2 & 3. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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In a Korean dialect, "Gaga gaga ga ga?" means "Is that person (first gaga) Ga family's (second gaga) member (first ga) ? (last ga indicates it is a question)".
(from Wiki)
hehe. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:44 am Post subject: |
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I saw a grammatically OK sentence with a bunch of hads in a row.
Something like:
Bill, where Jim had had "had," had had "had had" (on the test).
I guess you could make a question to add an extra had:
Bill, where Jim had had "had," had had "had had," had he not? |
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